In memory of our colleague, Ross, who sadly passed away recently, we are raising funds for Woodland Trust. As well as being a pioneer in the field of security engineering, Ross had a passion for trees.

Ross' family have requested donations to a charity that works to protect our forests in lieu of flowers and individual cards.

Ross devoted his career to developing security engineering as a discipline. He was a pioneer of hardware tamper-resistance, API security, peer-to-peer systems, prepayment metering and powerline communications. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, as well as a winner of the Lovelace Medal – the UK's top award in computing.

We are fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Ross; he will be missed by his colleagues and his students at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.